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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 2
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True ministers preach in a godly manner—Converts are the glory and joy of missionaries.
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For</span> yourselves, brethren, know our <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Thes. 1: 5.">entrance</a> in unto you, that it was not in vain:
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But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 16: 22 (19-24).">entreated</a>, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/2/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Acts 17: 2 (2-3).">speak</a> unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
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For our exhortation <i>was</i> not of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Cor. 4: 2; 2 Cor. 7: 2.">deceit</a>, nor of uncleanness, nor in <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/2/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Guile.">guile</a>:
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But as we were <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/4a" mark="a" type="Q" title="GR approved, found worthy, chosen; 2 Tim. 1: 11.">allowed</a> of God to be <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/2/4b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR entrusted.">put</a> in <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/2/4c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 12: 8; D&C 124: 113.">trust</a> with the gospel, even so we <sup>d</sup><a href="1_thes/2/4d" mark="d" type="A" title="Titus 2: 1; 1 Pet. 4: 11.">speak</a>; not as <sup>e</sup><a href="1_thes/2/4e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Peer Influence.">pleasing</a> men, but God, which <sup>f</sup><a href="1_thes/2/4f" mark="f" type="R" title="GR examines, proves by trial; TG Test, Try, Prove.">trieth</a> our hearts.
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For neither at any time used we <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Flattery.">flattering</a> words, as ye know, nor a cloke of <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/2/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Covetousness.">covetousness</a>; God <i>is</i> witness:
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Nor of men sought we <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 5: 44 (41-44); D&C 76: 61.">glory</a>, neither of you, nor <i>yet</i> of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
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But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
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So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Philip. 2: 17.">souls</a>, because ye were dear unto us.
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For ye remember, brethren, our labour and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR toil.">travail</a>: for <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/2/9b" mark="b" type="C" title="Acts 18: 3; Acts 20: 34; TG Work, Value of.">labouring</a> night and day, because we would not be <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/2/9c" mark="c" type="Q" title="GR burdensome; 1 Cor. 9: 18 (4-18); 2 Cor. 11: 9.">chargeable</a> unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
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Ye <i>are</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Thes. 1: 5.">witnesses</a>, and God <i>also,</i> how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
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As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father <i>doth</i> his <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 4: 14.">children</a>,
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That ye would <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/2/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Pet. 1: 15 (15-16).">worthy</a> of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
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For this cause also <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Thanksgiving.">thank</a> we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received <i>it</i> not <i>as</i> the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
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For ye, brethren, became <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR imitators.">followers</a> of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/2/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Acts 17: 5 (5-7); 2 Thes. 1: 4 (4-5).">suffered</a> like things of your own countrymen, even as they <i>have</i> of the Jews:
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Who both <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Martyrdom; TG Prophets, Rejection of.">killed</a> the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 11: 52; Acts 13: 45 (45, 50).">Forbidding</a> us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/2/16b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR always.">alway</a>: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
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But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Thes. 3: 10.">face</a> with great desire.
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Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
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For what <i>is</i> our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?  <i>Are</i> not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/2/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Thes. 3: 13; Rev. 1: 7; Rev. 22: 12; D&C 88: 97.">coming</a>?
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For ye are our glory and joy.
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